We are back with this week’s best of beacons post. In this feature, we will cover some interesting news and updates, right from the news of the University of Texas launching a beacon-enabled app to an exciting post on how airports are leveraging iBeacon technology for better perks. So, sit back and check out […]

Out-of-home (OOH) advertising today has made great strides in terms of incorporating new technologies, formats and mediums in order to influence customers in the intended manner. The OOH industry has been innovating at such a fast pace that it has now become ubiquitous; OOH advertisements are now being placed anywhere (from billboards at stadiums to […]

Every new technology is faced with skepticism till its real value is discovered and understood. This trend has been more significant in the last few years, as users became more aware and started treating data privacy and security as a key issue with regards to any technology.  This concern is further heightened when it comes […]

The announcement of Google Nearby at this year’s Google I/O has created quite a buzz in the area of proximity solutions. In specific, Google Nearby Notifications has got several brands and businesses excited, given the prospect of delivering highly contextual mobile-based brand experiences in the most seamless manner. Google Nearby is built on the core […]

We are back with this week’s best of beacons post. In this feature, we will cover some interesting news and updates, right from how Taipei Fine Arts Museum leveraged beacons to enable easy navigation to an interesting post on how beacons are fast reshaping retail marketing strategies. So, sit back and check out the latest […]

In-store shopping vs online shopping debate has grabbed the limelight for quite sometime in retail. And the discourse has only reinstated that the growth of e-commerce in the retail sector has not reduced the importance of brick-and-mortar stores for consumers. As confirmed by a recent TimeTrade survey, 71% of the US consumers prefer to shop […]

Launched by the search giant 2 months back at Google I/O 2016, Nearby Notifications is on its way to taking the world by storm. A number of brands across various verticals, right from Airside Mobile, an innovative mobile travel app, to Entertainment One, a media distribution company, have already leveraged Google Nearby to offer enhanced […]

Do you know how retailers can employ beacons to enhance the local search of their store? How Coca-Cola plans to use beacons with its vending machines or, how Airside Mobile plans to employ Google Nearby to fuel app adoption? Our latest beacon roundup aims to answer all the above questions, plus a bit more. Dig into […]

Going by the recent updates that were announced at the Google I/O event, 2016 will go down in history as the year when beacons left the world in awe of how contextual notifications can help enhance a user’s daily life in ways he/she never imagined. By allowing places around a user, including museums and drug […]

While beacons were initially popularised as a retail-marketing tool that allowed retailers to target customers with coupons, of late they have started playing a critical role in location-based marketing. With the latest updates to Eddystone, the release of Eddystone Ephemeral Identifier (EID) and launch of Android Instant Apps and Google Nearby, Google is fast shaping […]